Hello again! Now is 2011, here are the predicted and scheduled events:
January
- January 9 – Southern Sudan will hold a referendum on independence.
February
- February 19 – April 2 – 2011 Cricket World Cup will be held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
March
- March 18 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Mercury.
- March 18 – NASA's Pluto probe New Horizons will cross the orbit of Uranus, after a five-year journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which took eight years.
April
- April 1 – The Space Shuttle's last scheduled flight.
- April 29 – 2011 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships will start in Slovakia.
- Pakistan will launch its first space satellite.
- The Universal House of Justice will announce the new Five Year Plan.
May
- Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars all visible within a roughly 6° area of sky.
June
- June 1 – Partial solar eclipse in the Arctic.
- June 15 – Total lunar eclipse, mainly visible in Africa, India, and the Middle East.
July
- The Dawn spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the minor planet 4 Vesta during July. The exact date remains uncertain.
- July 1 – Start of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- July 1 – Partial solar eclipse off the coast of Antarctica.
- July 6 – In Durban, South Africa, the International Olympic Committee will announce the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
- July 10 – Neptune completes its first full orbit since its discovery in 1846.
August
- August 15 – The comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková will pass within 0.0601 astronomical units (about 5,589,300 miles (8,995,100 km)) of Earth.
- August 15–21 – XXVI World Youth Day will be held in Madrid, Spain.
September
- September 9 – October 23 – New Zealand will host the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
October
- October 13 – October 30 – 2011 Pan American Games.
November
- November 25 – Partial solar eclipse in Antarctica.
December
- December 10 – Total lunar eclipse, visible mainly in Asia, Australia and Alaska.
- December 31 – All United States troops are scheduled to leave Iraq
Unknown dates
- California will open the world's largest solar power plant.
- Several electric vehicles are expected to enter the U.S. market, perhaps most notably the Tesla Model S and BYD e6.
- Predicted solar maximum (also predicted by other research groups for 2012).
- The IPv4 unallocated address pool is projected to be exhausted.
- The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany will be completed.
- Blue Waters, a petascale supercomputer being designed and built as a joint effort between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and IBM is expected to be completed in this year.
- A new definition of the kilogram, based on universal constants, is likely to be announced at the 24th General Conference on Weights and Measures.